Well, well, well, well. Just like I, and many others with me, have said: SOPA is most certainly not dead. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith has just pushed out a press release stating that the House debate on SOPA will continue in February, 'unshelving' SOPA only a few days after it was supposedly shelved.

Remain Vigilant. The content industry will not go down this easily. We need to direct all our anger and hatred at SOPA and PIPA and keep an eye on Rep. Lamar Smith. We can win this, but we must keep fighting.

Yes, and the act won't be renamed into something about saving puppies. No because the opposition is the internet, open source communities and human rights activists, it will be named as something WE find instinctively appealing.

I am not surprised that SOPA has been shelved for now. The critters in congress and the senate know better than to impose such rubbish in an election year. The lawmakers will wait until the elections are safely behind them to pass this. It is conceivable that the legislation that is passed after the election will be even worse. American politicians have a long history of doing such things. The politicians know that, thanks to the short memory of the typical voter, there will be no consequences to passing such crap legislation if they time it correctly.

He is the president... he has no control what a chairperson of the committee (who is of the opposite political party) that is currently debating the bill brings to the floor of the committee room for debate.... Nor does he have control over what the speaker and majority leader allow to be brought to the floor for a final vote....what he can do is VETO the bill if this pile of crap passes both he house and senate.

We do not live in a monarchy or a parliamentary system. The president is the head of state not the head of our legislative body.